This is a personal essay about the last decade or two of my life as a novelist, about how and why my books have so often been about environmental issues, and about how the recent paradigm shift in climatology, recognizing the reality in the past and probably the future of abrupt climate change, became a central feature of the new trilogy of Utopian novels I am writing. by David Brin.

The best thinking in climatology tells us that the Earth is getting warmer, that warming results from the increased release of carbon into the atmosphere, and that we can, through drastic reductions in the usage of oil and coal, slow that increase.